Only thing missing is Mercedes Mary, who used to cruise at night down that long stretch of road outside the camp.A place that seemed utterly deserted until she started to flash those Merc headlights,and like true WW1 soldiers, dozen of squaddies could be seen crawling out the trenches on both side.

As a kid I lived in one of the 4 quarters attached to the camp between 1970-73. I can remember the house shaking during night firing and the same when a multitude of tanks/432s arrived one evening.
Had a great time wandering round, found thousands of rounds of discarded 7.62 blanks pushed down rabbit holes etc. Even had the Bomb Disposal people from Hohne?? coming into Soltau school as we had bought some of our "finds" to the school. The house was huge and the garden was about 1600 square meters, the 7th Armoured Brigade Signal troop once had their summer ball in the garden and the chefs barbecued a whole big for the event.
I keep meaning to go back but haven't had the time.

For God's sake dont scratch the surface though.... I shudder to think how many Chieftain/Chally pack changes i did there and just let the old oil gush into the deck! we lived in enlightened times you see!! LOL........

Dunno about the tunnel, but we dug a fecking big hole, had to be lowered down by using tow rope, why well boredom does strange things. How it never collapsed i dont know.

Bet theirs some stuff buried there for you to find Pup

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Our D Sqn 'Fitter' dug a girt big hole in 'Bivi 12', unfortunately this one did colapse and buried a 'Winnet' for a few hours! ISTR they managed to get a respirator on him with a load of those NBC hoses joined up and then connected the lot to a 432 NBC pack and kept him alive with forced air! The German fire brigade rescued him in the end....................PE4rocks comment!!!

For God's sake dont scratch the surface though.... I shudder to think how many Chieftain/Chally pack changes i did there and just let the old oil gush into the deck! we lived in enlightened times you see!! LOL........

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When the 'Brits' came to hand the area back, the 'Greenies' tried their dammedest to find contamination out on the area. Apparently they had holes drilled down to either 100m or 100ft to find oily samples, but they came up with nothing. However S54 did come across some bits & pieces that the area cleaning parties missed